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 enlarge | Authors: Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0307339246
Dewey Decimal Number: 170.44
EAN: 9780307339249
ASIN: 0307339246
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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 A MUST HAVE! June 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is my Bible. Why? Because it speaks the Truth. If you want to know the Truth and love "what is" this is the book for you. I'm on my third reading and I always get something new each time I read it.
It's my morning practice to read from this book. It gives me peace and clarity of mind to begin each day.
I am a lover of The Work and the quotes in this book just highlite what can be obtained by doing The Work. FREEEDOM!!
Thanks Katie!
Loving Sanity, Living Reality June 3, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Byron Katie and Stephen Mitchell combine to offer us the wisdom of the Tao Te Ching and the living reality of the teachings. From the author of the national bestseller, "Loving What Is," Katie points the way to loving sanity, so that we may live in harmony and realize ever present peace.
As she shares the manner in which she encounters the world of form, we sense the depth of unconditional love through her passionate embrace of each and every moment. This is someone who has escaped the madness of conditioned thought and judgment by fearlessly loving life just the way that it is. Her pathway is simple, pragmatic and powerful. The result? Freedom from suffering and a thousand names for joy.
Katie Davis, Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment
 Disturbing interpretation of Buddhism and Taoism May 29, 2008
4 out of 11 found this review helpful
When I saw Stephan Mitchell's name as a co-author, I expected a wise work on spirituality. Byron Katie only used parts of his translation of the Tao te Ching as chapter headings.
Byron Katie's message is that all events are joyous. To think this way would be to have no empathy and no compassion for others. The "accepting of what is" in Taoism is not a message of "joy".
 She's Gone WAAAY Out There May 28, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I don't aspire to be Byron Katie, and I don't agree with everything she says, but there is no doubt in my mind she is someone who has had some fundamental kind of spontaneous spiritual transformation and has a groundbreaking message. Where her first two books refined her philosphy of inquiry, she just goes off the map in this one. No matter what's happening - she's going blind, then she's almost losing a grandchild in the hospital - she's not just accepting these things - she's ecstatic! It's a little much at times. It's not quite what I want for myself, yet I take an immense amount from her philosophies and experiences. She's clearly transcended her mind (some might argue she's transcended her humanity along with it), but that's not what interests me. What interests me is the peace she's been able to find with her emphasis on all the world simply being a projection of one's mind. Of course, this is not a new idea, but I've never seen any spiritual teacher - be they buddhist or hindu or christian - extrapolate this truth to the extreme extent that this 60 year mother old woman from, of all places, BARSTOW California does. She's so far gone with her belief in the projected reality and so steeped in a philosophy of the unconditional acceptance and perfection of reality as it is, that she is some kind of new age fundamentalist, if such a classification could exist.
As has been observed, BK just woke up one day and had largely transformed, so my issue comes in her apparent disregard for what may be the root of all those thoughts she advises us to question - our inner pain, or as Eckhart Tolle might call it our "painbody". Hers may have largely disappeared overnight, but for the rest of us, we are left with ours, and just questioning our thoughts won't stop new, negative ones from arising from our deeper painbodies. Sometimes I feel like her inquiry only addresses the syptoms (our negative thoughts) rather than the source of those thoughts (our inner pain that precludes those thoughts). That's not to say I haven't gained immensely from her work because I really have.
A Recipe for Joy and Freedom In Your Life Today May 12, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Author Byron Katie in "A Thousand Names for Joy" shares her philosophy on to achieve a life of complete joy and freedom. She made this discovery on her own at forty-three, after ten years of deep depression and despair. At that time, she came to realize that her suffering was not a result of not having control but, rather, it was a result of her arguing with reality. Arguing with what is leads to confusion. Once we are in harmony with the way things are, real life begins, a life that is happier and kinder.
The cornerstone of her transformation was linked to the investigation of her thoughts. She learned that believing her thoughts led to suffering. When she did not believe them, she did not suffer. Suffering was by all appearances optional.
This experience led to the development of a process she calls THE WORK, designed to get what is in our mind on paper (cannot be done in our head as our minds will outsmart us) so we can stop our mind, stabilize our thoughts, and investigate them carefully. She provides examples of how to apply THE WORK throughout the book and in the Appendix, "How to Do The Work." In short form, THE WORK consists of the following questions/actions:
*Is what (the story/belief in your head) you are thinking true?
*Can you absolutely know that its true?
*How do you react when you believe the thought?
*Who would you be without the thought?
*Turn it around.
It has been Katie's experience, directly and indirectly through the work she has done with thousands of others, is that we are the cause of our own suffering - all of it. Joy is available to everyone, always, when one questions the mind in search of truth. I have found that there is real meat and potatoes in Katie's construct and have begun to use it in my own life. If read seriously, most, in their personal search for joy and freedom, will gain from reading "A Thousand Names for Joy".
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